And Would You Hand Me My Cigarettes? - poem

Lawrence Hall
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And Would You Hand Me My Cigarettes?

Idleness should be an honored vocation
Practiced by layabouts and slugabeds
For whom Bertie Wooster is perfection
And merry old Sergeant Schultz a hero

For good folk, dawn is only a rumor
And the concept of work an obscenity
No gentleman ever takes exercise
The only weight he lifts is his coffee cup

In amused salute to passing joggers:
Idleness should be an honored vocation